Election time is the opportune occasion for the West to lecture India about what democracy means or how secularism is practised or elections conducted. In the process, spokespersons of various governments, think tanks, media houses, self-styled experts, et al get over-busy nit-picking and making mountains of the molehill to somehow prove what they wish to be true. Currently, one finds Western media propaganda reports bashing India, pouring in like the barrage of hail hitting the windowpanes during a hailstorm.